Chatterbox Tuesday

I loved the photography in Breath of the Wild and The Windwaker. Every time I come across something new in Skyrim I still think "gotta get a picture". Although the fact that Link would creep up to animals successfully and then scare them off by standing up to take the picture was driving me spare.

Squires still hasn't got his arse out of bed. My Tuesday ritual ruined thus far.

Ten - are you carrying everything or are you stashing anything at all? Luckily no-one else pilfers dragon bones so you can make a note of where the skeleton is and just come back later.

The odd thing is that dragon armour isn't even that great. Daedric looks far cooler if you are running for heavy and either dragon scale or stahlrim if you are going light. That said if you are running a light armour build there are quite a few decent ones with perks (Saviours Hide). As you aren't looking to get hit much the trade off is better applied to ranged resistance (e.g. magic).

Grilled sardines in tomato sauce on toast. Liberally doused in a spicy chilli sauce.

Killed it.

More Resi revelations 2. It's fun, in a way. Nostalgia? Might buy the full game. Be better in local coop with a friend i reckon. Sigh.

Cheese sandwich, jar of sauerkraut. I might have a can of pop later.

Flask of soup, bread and butter. Austerity Britain.

Have you killed someone now?

Ditto.

Good to know that no-one would take dragon bones, but I would almost certainly forget where I've parked my last dragon. I mean, I've given up on my horse because I could never find it.

My problem is that facilities are really badly distributed throughout Skyrim if one's avoiding fast travel. I was getting a bit sick of always having to return to Whiterun (still the only place where I own a home, I'm working on other places) to stash my loot, have a choice of traders and all smithing facilities. I wanted to do more exploration, but the game makes it very difficult because it's hard to find a trader you can sell your loot to - I don't understand why the world is awash with innkeepers who will only trade in food and ingredients, i.e. the stuff that doesn't leave you particularly encumbered, but has so few vendors (like the Stormcloak quartermasters) who will take the really heavy stuff off you. I know that better trading conditions are part of the speech skill tree, but I can't say I'm inclined to invest perks into it just to alleviate the problem.

The same goes for smithing facilities. I've - naturally - picked up a lot of ore, and there are plenty of places that have a grindstone, or a workbench. But not a smelter, and so I can't actually use the grindstone or workbench to achieve a better price for weapons and armour that are already weighing me down because there's nowhere to sell them, and at the same time the ore is sitting uselessly in my inventory and adding to the weight. When clearing a location the weight limit means that one's leaving a lot of stuff behind, and there's not much time before everything despawns. (I'm not complaining about not having enough money, but it seems a pity that one can't make full use of the loot and always has to pick the low weight, high value items.)

I guess I just have to go back to fast travel and returning to camp regularly, but I'm finding the game quite unbalanced in that respect. I'm walking past plenty of places of interest because I know that the weight limit will not allow me to fully investigate.

Blame Scam. I told you you wouldn't like me when I'm whinging angry.

Tent are you travelling with a companion? You can stick a whole load of loot on them.